Sat 19 Jul 1823
From John R Denyer
To J S Salt
London
Re instructions of the Committee, I hand you a plan of the proposed alterations to be made in the house I occupy, by which five good sized rooms will be obtained in lieu of two (as at present) only calculated for servants or children. To effect this, the walls will require raising 7 feet, and a flat roof covered with lead, instead of slate substituted for the present one as already explained. This plan will afford sleeping rooms altogether for 7 gentlemen of the Committee in addition to my own family.
Since the Committee left this place, it occurred to me that the timber in the roof of the covered dock due to be taken down would be fully adequate to all the purposes of the proposed allocation and consequently save considerable expense, this, together with the circumstance of the Company’s regular carpenters doing the major part of the work, the stone for raising the walls being part of that extracted out of the Summit level, and the employment of the Company’s own labourers, renders an accurate estimate of the expense impracticable. It might exceed £100 or £120 more than the Company will be obliged to spend on the present roof, with adding the least accommodation.
